Statewide, overdose deaths were up again from 1,793 in 2015 to 2,069 in 2016, which is a 15.4 percent increase.

State officials noted “there were also signs of progress” as the increase in overdose rates appear to have slowed. Overdose deaths in Massachusetts have been rising steadily since 2011, with the most dramatic increase occurring in 2014 when deaths from heroin, oxycodone and other opioid drugs jumped 40 percent, according to state statistics.

The DPH updates statistics more than once a year in an effort to keep up-to-date on overdose trends and regional variations.

This will help “target prevention, treatment and recovery services to break the negative momentum of this crisis,” Gov. Charlie Baker said in a statement.

The Cape joins Bristol, Plymouth, Essex, Berkshire and Suffolk counties with the highest overdose death rates.

This time, the state also tracked ambulance runs by town to see how many calls came in for overdoses relative to the number of actual fatalities. Emergency medical workers responded to opioid-related incidents in 301 of the 351 towns. Every town on the Cape had at least one call in 2016, according to this data.

Barnstable, Falmouth, Yarmouth and Bourne had over 100.

The toxicology reports linked with the fatalities showed that fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than morphine, saturated the opioid supply in 2016. It was present in 77.5 percent of the deaths in the middle part of 2016, the state reported. Prescription opioids were found in only 9 percent of the toxicology reports. Lab results detected heroin in 33 percent of the cases.

The stronger opioid supply has meant first responders have had to use more than one dose of naloxone, an overdose reversal medication, to revive drug users. On average, they had to use 1.4 doses of naloxone at each call.

“I see it every day, not just because it’s the work I do, but because of the people I know,” Robbins said. “We are at the point where when we hear someone has passed away from an overdose, it’s almost like conversational. I don’t know, it’s common.”